 | 1852 - 436 pages
...letters in the English language. Everyone will remember its concluding sentences, where he asks, " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 pages
...f Were time and printer's space of no value, it were easy to ' The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the...patron, .my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help P The . notice... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in ' Virgil' grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the...patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native of the...patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and wheu he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pages
...a native of the rocks. ' Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | Ireland - 1853 - 1074 pages
...taunt to Chesterfield — " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" — and would have wished Moore to say of Lansdowne, as he himself said of poor, mad, open-hearted... | |
 | Ireland - 1853 - 528 pages
...and his wife, through friendship for their son—he would regret the bitter taunt to Chesterfield—" Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"—and would... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, " and when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with " help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of " my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has " been delayed till... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...publication, without one " act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, " and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with " help ? The... | |
 | 1882 - 858 pages
...and its author well known, that nobleman appeared proud of the title. It was then that Johnson wrote: 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice... | |
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Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? 
